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Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export
ENTICE meeting12 November 2010Silvia TomaninDG-CO
What is it?
• www.drupalgardens.com
• Drupal-as-a-service platform
• For creating and hosting Drupal 7 websites
• No need to install software
• Many features ready to use
• Possibility to export your sites
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How to get a site?
• Registration
• Site creation
• Choose the name sitename.drupalgardens.com
• Choose the template
• Choose the default functionalities
• Possibility to change the domain name.
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What do we get?
• A Drupal 7 website with a set of features ready-to-use.
• Pages
• Blog entries
• News items
• FAQ items
• Gallery
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What can we customize?
• Themes
• You can pick an existent one, edit and export it
• You can’t import your own theme
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Work in progress on the site import feature
What can we customize?
• Modules (1/2)
• Many available by default• Core modules
• Wysiwyg
• Spam protection
• Mailing list
• Pathauto
• Gallery
• Google Analytics
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What can we customize?
• Modules (2/2)
• What is missing• Authentication modules (shib_auth, ldap)
• Multilingual support
• Voting API and Fivestar
• Wiki
• Workflow
• You can’t import your own modules
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Work in progress on the site import feature
Site export
• If you need to add functionalities you can export and host the site yourself
• How? http://www.drupalgardens.com/mysites
More
Export site
Save the .tar.gz file
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Site export
• The export includes
• Drupal 7 core files
• Database
• Modules, themes and content
• Site and module configuration settings
• Users
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Site import
• Extract the files in your DocumentRoot
• Import the database
• Adjust settings.php file
• Hosting the site yourself you can add and/or develop your own themes and modules
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Work in progress on the site import feature
In brief
• PRO: perfect to become familiar with Drupal 7 without caring about hosting and maintenance. Possibility to export the whole site.
• CONS: not very customizable for special sites, no themes or modules import or dev (unless you host it yourself).
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Questions?
Questions?
Comments?
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